Borgia (TV Series)

1503, Part Two (2014)

Mark Ryder: Cesare Borgia

Quotes 

• Cesare Borgia : Rumors exist because people mistake their own wishes for reality.

• Cesare Borgia : You are a fool. I will not help to promote my father's enemy.

  Della Rovere : I believe every man has a right to know who his father is. So, I ask you , Cesare, how can I be your father's enemy when I *am* your father?

• Cesare Borgia : Do I fuck like a Borgia?

  Giulia Farnese : Your father loved me, whereas you only love yourself. But the eagerness, the sensuality, the bull in you, were the same.

• Cesare Borgia : You and Rodrigo were enemies because you were exactly the same. You opposed him, not because you disagreed with his methods, you would have committed the same outrages. You opposed him because you were jealous of the fact that he was succeeding in place of you. No matter which of you is my father, I would have still turned out the way I am. Hate has shaped me as much as love. I have hated you as much as I have loved Rodrigo.

  Della Rovere : But you have also hated Rodrigo. Perhaps one day, you will come to love me.

  [touching his face] 

  Della Rovere : My son.

• [last lines] 

  Cesare Borgia : I am at a loss. You defeated your enemies and come back from the dead to throw yourself in the pit of hell?

  Niccolo da Correggio : Perhaps hell is where I belong.

  Cesare Borgia : Oh, so suddenly you not only believe the word of Della Rovere, but in divine retribution as well?

  Niccolo da Correggio : No. What would my relationship with Rodrigo Borgia be? I was desperate for his love and indifferent to it. But he has always been there - a roman doric column holding me up. Now he's gone and I find that I must fill his absence, or collapse under life's weight.

  Cesare Borgia : But to choose Della Rovere...

  Niccolo da Correggio : No Spaniard could win. No Frenchman, only an Italian. I could not choose a weak man, even though logic told me to do so. Della Rovere thinks that he is craftier than I am, and in that struggle I will strengthen. I will triumph and claim my proper place in history.